Peace with Pakitan At All Cost or Perish

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From the blog and from Times of India 17 Jan

Playing the long game


Jyoti Malhotra

We must no tallow hostile elements in Pakistan to distract us from the need for peace

The decision to send back Pakistani music artistes and sports people — as if they were responsible for the despicable beheading of the Indian soldier on the Line of Control (LoC) last week — and to put on hold the visa-on-arrival facility for Pakistani citizens 65 years and above, is not only to be afraid of an army of old men and women hoping to melt India's hearts and minds, but is to be afraid of oneself.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a man of integrity and intelligence. He clearly understands why this hysteria is being whipped up along the LoC, but he doesn't seem to have the courage to stop it. Four years after he took back a joint statement issued with Pakistan at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm-el Sheikh — for better or for worse, that's another story — the prime minister has repeatedly shown an inability to stand up for what he believes in, or at least what India must believe in.

In both instances, Sharm-el Sheikh as well as today, the PM and his Congress party have ceded precious ground to the BJP, which has lulled itself into believing that virulent jingoism is an alternative to the hard-nosed business of foreign policy. Note how the BJP is demanding 10 Pakistani skulls for one Indian head, 10 eyes for an eye, even as it smacks its lips at the growing inability of the Congress party to deliver a "super-Israel" moment.

But first, a look at the facts. The beheading of Lance Naik Hemraj, a gruesome, ghastly and horrendous act that no self-respecting army can condone, has rightly stirred considerable anger. And second, army sources accept, off-the-record, that this kind of unacceptable violence has taken place in the past, for instance, during Kargil.

Of course it isn't business as usual. It would diminish the intelligence of millions of Indians to ask them to ignore what happened on the LoC last week and return to the minutiae of their lives. Instead, let us ask ourselves just one question before we press our policy-paralysed government into making hasty decisions that affect real people on both sides of the border: Who benefits from this recent rising tension?

The answer to this is connected with India's self-image, growing economically from anywhere between 5-8% in recent years. If India wants to become the leader of South Asia and represent the region in world affairs, if it wants to be seen as an Asian power whose time has come, alongside China, then it must understand the delicate shifting of power that is taking place in each country in the region, including Pakistan.

Inside Pakistan, people will surely look back on the last few days as one of those turning points in the life of a nation: After more than 72 hours, a protesting Shia Hazara community in Quetta on Monday began to bury over a hundred people killed in serial bomb blasts carried out by the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) last week. And as the Canada-returned cleric, Tahir-ul Qadri, arrived in Islamabad with several thousand fellow-marchers, demanding that the army and the judiciary be consulted in the formation of a caretaker government that will oversee elections in Pakistan in a few months, Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister.

The Pakistani media has dubbed Qadri an army puppet. The Pakistani media's focus on Quetta's elders refusing to bury their dead shamed Islamabad into sacking the chief minister of the province — he was holidaying in London — and returned the focus on how terrorist groups like the LeJ are eating into the nation's vitals. It is the Pakistani media that continues to articulate the view that the people of Pakistan must engage with India much more, not less, if only to neutralise the invasive impact of the army as well as religious fundamentalism and terrorism on the life of their country.

It is exactly to address the constituency of the people in Pakistan and hope they will begin to resist this unhealthy covert alliance that India delinked progress on the Mumbai attacks with progress on trade and greater people-to-people relations. But by cutting the ground from beneath the feet of the Pakistani 'aam admi' — hockey players, singers, 65-year-old senior citizens — the Congress party is not only showing itself to be the 'B' team of the BJP, but also that it has little understanding of the complex goings-on in its neighbourhood.

If India wants to be a regional player, it must first understand the region. Pakistani terrorists in army uniform have targeted army headquarters in Rawalpindi as well as its naval headquarters in Mehran. Could they have beheaded Lance Naik Hemraj last week? If, indeed, the Pakistan army and certain terrorist groups benefit from rising tension on the LoC as a means to distract from the growing tension within the state, the only answer is to quietly continue to support the democratic cons-tituency inside Pakistan.

With the Americans perhaps leaving Afghanistan this year, the neighbourhood is going to be aflame with several agonies. India has to learn to absorb pain. Hysteria is never the hallmark of great nationhood. At the rate the government is going, it may end up diminishing itself in the eyes of its own people.

The writer is a commentator on foreign affairs.

Playing the long game by IST : Jyoti Malhotra's blog-The Times Of India

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Indeed peace is the need of the hour, but has to be peace at all costs?

Must we always bend to the machinations of all our neighbours to ensure peace?

The writer is a commentator on foreign affairs, but comes out myopic in vision in that she has failed to see the manner in which India, because of people like her ilk, is advising the Govt to keep peace at all cost their vision and target, Has she failed to observe that we are getting boxed in around the neighbourhood, so much so that even tiny Maldives is cocking the snook at us and getting away?

There is no idea of blaming Manmohan Singh for not standing up for peace and soft soaping him with platitudinous words like 'man of integrity and intelligence'. It is true that he had put peace with Pakistan on his sleeve, but then he, too, is an Indian. Unlike the writer, he is a realist, who too feels that the repeated obdurateness and mayhem by Pakistan does not leave leeway for peace at all costs.

At Sharm al Sheikh, Pakistan has sneakily pushed in that India was abetting Balochis against Pakistan. It is not because the Congress is the B Team of BJP, as she wants one to believe, but it was an honorable thing to do to make amends, given that it was a blatant falsehood.

If one goes through her refrain that there must be peace at all costs, it is most humorous and even ludicrous of her to feign concern with the sentence - The beheading of Lance Naik Hemraj, a gruesome, ghastly and horrendous act that no self-respecting army can condone, has rightly stirred considerable anger. And second, army sources accept, off-the-record, that this kind of unacceptable violence has taken place in the past, for instance, during Kargil..

If no self respecting Army can condone the barbaric beheading what does she imply by - this kind of unacceptable violence has taken place in the past, for instance, during Kargil.?

Does she mean that because it had happened earlier, it should continue happening and we turn a Nelson's eye? And if that is so, her statement that no Army can condone the gruesome, ghastly and horrendous act rings and thunders as hollow and even deceitful.

The writer is living in a self induced delusion when she feels that the we (Indians) press our policy-paralysed government into making hasty decisions that affect real people on both sides of the border:

Firstly, the Govt maybe policy paralysed, but in this instant case has deliberated and then come out with its view inspite of the national outrage. She should exercise caution before commenting through ill conceived blather, only to push her agenda.

As for her concern that Indians should worry about the chaos ensuing in Pakistan's domestic scene with the Canadian cleric spewing fire and brimstone, the Supreme Court and the Govt being at loggerheads, it again is misplaced and condescending. Indians and India cannot assume that they are the moral conscience keeper and self styled moral influence on democracies around India.

I am aghast with this sentence - Pakistani terrorists in army uniform have targeted army headquarters in Rawalpindi as well as its naval headquarters in Mehran. Could they have beheaded Lance Naik Hemraj last week?

She claims to be a commentator on foreign affairs. Surprising that she is not learned enough on foreign affairs to know that terrorists are but an extension of the ISI and the Pak Army., She so glibly talks of Kargil, but does she not know that Pakistan claimed that it was the jihadis who had infiltrated into Kargil, when actually it was the Pak Army? Therefore, how come she in a Machiavellian way trying to suggest that the Pak Army is beyond beheading and it was the terrorists?

The writer seems to be enamoured by Mani Shankar Iyer's mantra[/I that he repeats with glee ad nauseum - the peace process must be "uninterrupted and uninterruptible].

In other words, let us lie supine and enjoy being physically violated since it is inevitable and it is for a good cause, for it will bring Peace!

Peace at all costs, but why does the writer forget the agonies and travails of the solider who is standing vigil for the very peace she enjoys in her air conditioned comfort? Are the soldiers not Indians? Are they to always be the proverbial sacrificial goats at the altar of failed politics and yellow livered whiners who crave for Peace at all costs since they do not bear the burden to ensure the very Peace that they crave for?

I wonder the writer would react if instead of Hem Raj, it was her near and dear one who was beheaded while performing his vigil on the frontier so that all Indians could sleep under the security they provide.
 
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Re: We mustn't allow hostile Pakistan elements to distract us from Pea

India is compromising with all types of threats including the Maoists.

There are a lot of sympathisers for the various causes at work,

One wonders who funds them.

How can India gear herself up so that these divisive NGOs, bleeding hearts and certain media interests can be checked and their funds dried up?
 

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India is compromising with all types of threats including the Maoists.

There are a lot of sympathisers for the various causes at work,

One wonders who funds them.

How can India gear herself up so that these divisive NGOs, bleeding hearts and certain media interests can be checked and their funds dried up?
We must counter propaganda with counter propaganda. That's what we're doing here Sir. Ripping this ass of an article apart.

I'm not surprised by the tone of the article. These are the members of the new class of liberal retards or 'libtards' in India. The most courageous thing they'll ever do in their pitiful life is light a candle in 'protest' of something and pretend that it is an act of bravery greater than standing on the border with arms. We need to counter people like this on the web, and in the streets if necessary.
 
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Sir,

This article reeks of ignorance and you spent your time replying to it? What has this world done to you? :facepalm:
 

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Re: We mustn't allow hostile Pakistan elements to distract us from Pea

India is compromising with all types of threats including the Maoists.

There are a lot of sympathisers for the various causes at work,

One wonders who funds them.

How can India gear herself up so that these divisive NGOs, bleeding hearts and certain media interests can be checked and their funds dried up?
NGO's have become channels of black money so one can understand these comments by these Aman Ka Tamasha types.These idiots crying peace seems to be one of the culprits.

Why dont those so called actors/artists/retired from Pak put pressure on their Govt to stop terrorism and change the wrong strategy FIRST???

Why we need to entertain these people when their countrymen/ relatives are engaged in terrorism? We have given enough chance to Pakis to have peace but these Osama supporters are simply pack of LIARS.
 

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he most courageous thing they'll ever do in their pitiful life is light a candle in protest of something and pretend that it is an act of bravery greater than standing on the border with arms.
+1


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Sir,

This article reeks of ignorance and you spent your time replying to it? What has this world done to you? :facepalm:
I wanted to hear the views of the posters.

Surely there will be those who can rebut my contention and support the writer's view or agree to some extent.

I wanted to know what were the views so that one could also see the merits of the writer's contention, which she seems to have left to doubt.

Can India still make her point of view pressed home and yet allow sportsperson and film and music and cultural troupe to build bridges?

If so, what would be the compromise?

And what would be the effect?
 

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These are the same libratard trembling gandu Hindus who have been butchered and raped by invaders through out the history of India.

In just 60 years of independence of India, Indians have been cut from their breasts, loaded into trains without heads, raped, mutilated, invaded, shot from point blank range while eating food, dead bodies of kids have been used a bomb traps, humiliated with third class fallacious propaganda on every single place where people can rant, and have been dragged into four bloody wars but still these madarchods have straight face to talk about peace.
 

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Re: We mustn't allow hostile Pakistan elements to distract us from Pea

India is compromising with all types of threats including the Maoists.
There are a lot of sympathisers for the various causes at work,
One wonders who funds them.
How can India gear herself up so that these divisive NGOs, bleeding hearts and certain media interests can be checked and their funds dried up?
This lady was on Face The Nation last night and she was strongly in favour of gana, bajana and khelna with Pakistan at all costs - as per her logic the people of Pakistan are innocent. Amazing.

Our loony liberals in their comfortable air conditioned offices do not seem to have sympathy for the jawan who were brutally beheaded or their poor family and young kids orphaned - sympathy is for the innocent Pakistanis only!
 

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@parijataka,

Thanks.

Seem to have missed the lady.
 
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Re: We mustn't allow hostile Pakistan elements to distract us from Pea

This lady was on Face The Nation last night and she was strongly in favour of gana, bajana and khelna with Pakistan at all costs - as per her logic the people of Pakistan are innocent. Amazing.

Our loony liberals in their comfortable air conditioned offices do not seem to have sympathy for the jawan who were brutally beheaded or their poor family and young kids orphaned - sympathy is for the innocent Pakistanis only!
Which lady? Was she gaining something from it? for example money?
 

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The lady must be trying for her peace of mind but is getting the piece of our mind!
 

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Well we should expect more such article from ToI after all they have to run their shop and sell their product called "Aman ka tamasha"
 

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No peace with India.
One Paki certifies at least.

Don't worry since this attitude would break you in more pieces... oh wait you are not in one state already.
 

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India is against the existance of Pakistan

i have always supported we should de-recoginize each other

Pakistan to join Greater middle east

leave South asia to the indians
 

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I don't think you have time for Peace with anyone including yourselves since you have too many wars going on within your own country - Taliban, Cleric Kadri, Supreme Court, Govt, Imran Khan, Shia Sunni conflagration, Army, ISI, Balocis, etc etc.
Still temporary problems

on the other hand you have a faster growing muslim population.once it reach 30% of population.Allah bachaye
 

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